This notebook walks you through one of the most popular Udacity projects across machine learning and artificial intellegence nanodegree programs. The goal is to classify images of dogs according to their breed.
If you are looking for a more guided capstone project related to deep learning and convolutional neural networks, this might be just it. Notice that even if you follow the notebook to creating your classifier, you must still create a blog post or deploy an application to fulfill the requirements of the capstone project.
Also notice, you may be able to use only parts of this notebook (for example certain coding portions or the data) without completing all parts and still meet all requirements of the capstone project.
In this notebook, some template code has already been provided for you, and you will need to implement additional functionality to successfully complete this project. You will not need to modify the included code beyond what is requested. Sections that begin with '(IMPLEMENTATION)' in the header indicate that the following block of code will require additional functionality which you must provide. Instructions will be provided for each section, and the specifics of the implementation are marked in the code block with a 'TODO' statement. Please be sure to read the instructions carefully!
In addition to implementing code, there will be questions that you must answer which relate to the project and your implementation. Each section where you will answer a question is preceded by a 'Question X' header. Carefully read each question and provide thorough answers in the following text boxes that begin with 'Answer:'. Your project submission will be evaluated based on your answers to each of the questions and the implementation you provide.
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The rubric contains optional "Stand Out Suggestions" for enhancing the project beyond the minimum requirements. If you decide to pursue the "Stand Out Suggestions", you should include the code in this IPython notebook.
In this notebook, you will make the first steps towards developing an algorithm that could be used as part of a mobile or web app. At the end of this project, your code will accept any user-supplied image as input. If a dog is detected in the image, it will provide an estimate of the dog's breed. If a human is detected, it will provide an estimate of the dog breed that is most resembling. The image below displays potential sample output of your finished project (... but we expect that each student's algorithm will behave differently!).

In this real-world setting, you will need to piece together a series of models to perform different tasks; for instance, the algorithm that detects humans in an image will be different from the CNN that infers dog breed. There are many points of possible failure, and no perfect algorithm exists. Your imperfect solution will nonetheless create a fun user experience!
We break the notebook into separate steps. Feel free to use the links below to navigate the notebook.
In the code cell below, we import a dataset of dog images. We populate a few variables through the use of the load_files function from the scikit-learn library:
train_files, valid_files, test_files - numpy arrays containing file paths to imagestrain_targets, valid_targets, test_targets - numpy arrays containing onehot-encoded classification labels dog_names - list of string-valued dog breed names for translating labelsfrom sklearn.datasets import load_files
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report
from keras.utils import np_utils
import numpy as np
from glob import glob
from keras.layers import Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, GlobalAveragePooling2D
from keras.layers import Dropout, Flatten, Dense, Activation
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers.normalization import BatchNormalization
from keras.applications.resnet50 import ResNet50
from keras.applications.resnet50 import preprocess_input, decode_predictions
from keras.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint
from keras.preprocessing import image
from tqdm import tqdm
from PIL import ImageFile
from extract_bottleneck_features import *
import cv2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
# define function to load train, test, and validation datasets
def load_dataset(path):
data = load_files(path)
dog_files = np.array(data['filenames'])
dog_targets = np_utils.to_categorical(np.array(data['target']), 133)
return dog_files, dog_targets
# load train, test, and validation datasets
train_files, train_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/train')
valid_files, valid_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/valid')
test_files, test_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/test')
# load list of dog names
dog_names = [item[20:-1] for item in sorted(glob("../../../data/dog_images/train/*/"))]
# print statistics about the dataset
print('There are %d total dog categories.' % len(dog_names))
print('There are %s total dog images.\n' % len(np.hstack([train_files, valid_files, test_files])))
print('There are %d training dog images.' % len(train_files))
print('There are %d validation dog images.' % len(valid_files))
print('There are %d test dog images.'% len(test_files))
dog_names
#remove not useful information from dog_names ages/train/
short_dog_names = []
i = 0
for names in dog_names:
i+=1
names = names.replace('ages/train/','')
print(names)
short_dog_names.append(names)
if i > 133 : break
In the code cell below, we import a dataset of human images, where the file paths are stored in the numpy array human_files.
import random
random.seed(8675309)
# load filenames in shuffled human dataset
human_files = np.array(glob("../../../data/lfw/*/*"))
random.shuffle(human_files)
# print statistics about the dataset
print('There are %d total human images.' % len(human_files))
human_files[1]
We use OpenCV's implementation of Haar feature-based cascade classifiers to detect human faces in images. OpenCV provides many pre-trained face detectors, stored as XML files on github. We have downloaded one of these detectors and stored it in the haarcascades directory.
In the next code cell, we demonstrate how to use this detector to find human faces in a sample image.
def detect_and_box_faces(image_link, detect=True, box_thick=5):
'''
take an image link as an input
detect parameter to identify and print number of faces detected
plot the image with blue box around faces detected
'''
img = cv2.imread(image_link)
# convert BGR image to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# find faces in image
if detect :
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
# print number of faces detected in the image
print('Number of faces detected:', len(faces))
# get bounding box for each detected face
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
# add bounding box to color image
cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,120,120),box_thick)
# convert BGR image to RGB for plotting
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
# display the image, along with bounding box
plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
plt.show()
# extract pre-trained face detector
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')
detect_and_box_faces(human_files[131])
Before using any of the face detectors, it is standard procedure to convert the images to grayscale. The detectMultiScale function executes the classifier stored in face_cascade and takes the grayscale image as a parameter.
In the above code, faces is a numpy array of detected faces, where each row corresponds to a detected face. Each detected face is a 1D array with four entries that specifies the bounding box of the detected face. The first two entries in the array (extracted in the above code as x and y) specify the horizontal and vertical positions of the top left corner of the bounding box. The last two entries in the array (extracted here as w and h) specify the width and height of the box.
We can use this procedure to write a function that returns True if a human face is detected in an image and False otherwise. This function, aptly named face_detector, takes a string-valued file path to an image as input and appears in the code block below.
# returns "True" if face is detected in image stored at img_path
def face_detector(img_path):
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
return len(faces) > 0
Question 1: Use the code cell below to test the performance of the face_detector function.
human_files have a detected human face? dog_files have a detected human face? Ideally, we would like 100% of human images with a detected face and 0% of dog images with a detected face. You will see that our algorithm falls short of this goal, but still gives acceptable performance. We extract the file paths for the first 100 images from each of the datasets and store them in the numpy arrays human_files_short and dog_files_short.
Answer:
human_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = train_files[:100]
# Do NOT modify the code above this line.
## TODO: Test the performance of the face_detector algorithm
## on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
def face_detector_performance(image_set):
'''
give the performance of face_detector for an image set
take an image set as an input
give a percent as an output
'''
# count face numbers
image_count=0
for img_s in image_set:
if face_detector(img_s) == True:
image_count+=1
# calcul performance
performance = (float(image_count)/float(len(image_set)))*100
# express performance
print('Percent of faces detected is: {:3.2f}%'.format(performance))
# face detector performance on human_files_short
face_detector_performance(human_files_short)
# face detector performance on dog_files_short
face_detector_performance(dog_files_short)
# observe image with faces detected in dog_files_short
dog_human_faces = []
for dog_f in dog_files_short:
if face_detector(dog_f)==True:
img = cv2.imread(dog_f)
print('image reference is', dog_f)
dog_human_faces.append(dog_f)
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
plt.show()
#here we plot and boxe faces in wrong faces human detection.
for d in dog_human_faces:
detect_and_box_faces(d)
Question 2: This algorithmic choice necessitates that we communicate to the user that we accept human images only when they provide a clear view of a face (otherwise, we risk having unneccessarily frustrated users!). In your opinion, is this a reasonable expectation to pose on the user? If not, can you think of a way to detect humans in images that does not necessitate an image with a clearly presented face?
Answer:
In order to not disappoint the user, I would recommand to add a note that the view of a face needs to be clear so that users may not get frustrated. Also, it would be possible to detect human faces with CNN that is trained with many human images with different angles. Nevertheless, we can create as much as possible, a specific CNN to detect humans.
We suggest the face detector from OpenCV as a potential way to detect human images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other approaches, especially approaches that make use of deep learning :). Please use the code cell below to design and test your own face detection algorithm. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on each of the datasets.
## (Optional) TODO: Report the performance of another
## face detection algorithm on the LFW dataset
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
In this section, we use a pre-trained ResNet-50 model to detect dogs in images. Our first line of code downloads the ResNet-50 model, along with weights that have been trained on ImageNet, a very large, very popular dataset used for image classification and other vision tasks. ImageNet contains over 10 million URLs, each linking to an image containing an object from one of 1000 categories. Given an image, this pre-trained ResNet-50 model returns a prediction (derived from the available categories in ImageNet) for the object that is contained in the image.
# define ResNet50 model
ResNet50_model = ResNet50(weights='imagenet')
When using TensorFlow as backend, Keras CNNs require a 4D array (which we'll also refer to as a 4D tensor) as input, with shape
$$ (\text{nb_samples}, \text{rows}, \text{columns}, \text{channels}), $$where nb_samples corresponds to the total number of images (or samples), and rows, columns, and channels correspond to the number of rows, columns, and channels for each image, respectively.
The path_to_tensor function below takes a string-valued file path to a color image as input and returns a 4D tensor suitable for supplying to a Keras CNN. The function first loads the image and resizes it to a square image that is $224 \times 224$ pixels. Next, the image is converted to an array, which is then resized to a 4D tensor. In this case, since we are working with color images, each image has three channels. Likewise, since we are processing a single image (or sample), the returned tensor will always have shape
The paths_to_tensor function takes a numpy array of string-valued image paths as input and returns a 4D tensor with shape
Here, nb_samples is the number of samples, or number of images, in the supplied array of image paths. It is best to think of nb_samples as the number of 3D tensors (where each 3D tensor corresponds to a different image) in your dataset!
from keras.preprocessing import image
def path_to_tensor(img_path):
# loads RGB image as PIL.Image.Image type
img = image.load_img(img_path, target_size=(224, 224))
# convert PIL.Image.Image type to 3D tensor with shape (224, 224, 3)
x = image.img_to_array(img)
# convert 3D tensor to 4D tensor with shape (1, 224, 224, 3) and return 4D tensor
return np.expand_dims(x, axis=0)
def paths_to_tensor(img_paths):
list_of_tensors = [path_to_tensor(img_path) for img_path in tqdm(img_paths)]
return np.vstack(list_of_tensors)
image
Getting the 4D tensor ready for ResNet-50, and for any other pre-trained model in Keras, requires some additional processing. First, the RGB image is converted to BGR by reordering the channels. All pre-trained models have the additional normalization step that the mean pixel (expressed in RGB as $[103.939, 116.779, 123.68]$ and calculated from all pixels in all images in ImageNet) must be subtracted from every pixel in each image. This is implemented in the imported function preprocess_input. If you're curious, you can check the code for preprocess_input here.
Now that we have a way to format our image for supplying to ResNet-50, we are now ready to use the model to extract the predictions. This is accomplished with the predict method, which returns an array whose $i$-th entry is the model's predicted probability that the image belongs to the $i$-th ImageNet category. This is implemented in the ResNet50_predict_labels function below.
By taking the argmax of the predicted probability vector, we obtain an integer corresponding to the model's predicted object class, which we can identify with an object category through the use of this dictionary.
def ResNet50_predict_labels(img_path):
# returns prediction vector for image located at img_path
img = preprocess_input(path_to_tensor(img_path))
return np.argmax(ResNet50_model.predict(img))
While looking at the dictionary, you will notice that the categories corresponding to dogs appear in an uninterrupted sequence and correspond to dictionary keys 151-268, inclusive, to include all categories from 'Chihuahua' to 'Mexican hairless'. Thus, in order to check to see if an image is predicted to contain a dog by the pre-trained ResNet-50 model, we need only check if the ResNet50_predict_labels function above returns a value between 151 and 268 (inclusive).
We use these ideas to complete the dog_detector function below, which returns True if a dog is detected in an image (and False if not).
151: 'Chihuahua', 152: 'Japanese spaniel', 153: 'Maltese dog, Maltese terrier, Maltese',
154: 'Pekinese, Pekingese, Peke', 155: 'Shih-Tzu', 156: 'Blenheim spaniel', 157: 'papillon',
158: 'toy terrier', 159: 'Rhodesian ridgeback', 160: 'Afghan hound, Afghan', 161: 'basset, basset hound',
162: 'beagle', 163: 'bloodhound, sleuthhound', 164: 'bluetick', 165: 'black-and-tan coonhound',
166: 'Walker hound, Walker foxhound', 167: 'English foxhound', 168: 'redbone', 169: 'borzoi, Russian wolfhound',
170: 'Irish wolfhound', 171: 'Italian greyhound', 172: 'whippet', 173: 'Ibizan hound, Ibizan Podenco',
174: 'Norwegian elkhound, elkhound', 175: 'otterhound, otter hound', 176: 'Saluki, gazelle hound',
177: 'Scottish deerhound, deerhound', 178: 'Weimaraner', 179: 'Staffordshire bullterrier, Staffordshire bull terrier',
180: 'American Staffordshire terrier, Staffordshire terrier, American pit bull terrier, pit bull terrier',
181: 'Bedlington terrier', 182: 'Border terrier', 183: 'Kerry blue terrier', 184: 'Irish terrier',
185: 'Norfolk terrier', 186: 'Norwich terrier', 187: 'Yorkshire terrier', 188: 'wire-haired fox terrier',
189: 'Lakeland terrier', 190: 'Sealyham terrier, Sealyham', 191: 'Airedale, Airedale terrier',
192: 'cairn, cairn terrier', 193: 'Australian terrier', 194: 'Dandie Dinmont, Dandie Dinmont terrier',
195: 'Boston bull, Boston terrier', 196: 'miniature schnauzer', 197: 'giant schnauzer', 198: 'standard schnauzer',
199: 'Scotch terrier, Scottish terrier, Scottie', 200: 'Tibetan terrier, chrysanthemum dog',
201: 'silky terrier, Sydney silky', 202: 'soft-coated wheaten terrier', 203: 'West Highland white terrier',
204: 'Lhasa, Lhasa apso', 205: 'flat-coated retriever', 206: 'curly-coated retriever',
207: 'golden retriever', 208: 'Labrador retriever', 209: 'Chesapeake Bay retriever', 210: 'German short-haired pointer',
211: 'vizsla, Hungarian pointer', 212: 'English setter', 213: 'Irish setter, red setter', 214: 'Gordon setter',
215: Brittany spaniel', 216: 'clumber, clumber spaniel', 217: 'English springer, English springer spaniel',
218: 'Welsh springer spaniel', 219: 'cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel, cocker', 220: 'Sussex spaniel',
221: 'Irish water spaniel', 222: 'kuvasz', 223: 'schipperke', 224: 'groenendael', 225: 'malinois',
226: 'briard', 227: 'kelpie', 228: 'komondor', 229: 'Old English sheepdog, bobtail',
230: 'Shetland sheepdog, Shetland sheep dog, Shetland', 231: 'collie', 232: 'Border collie',
233: 'Bouvier des Flandres, Bouviers des Flandres', 234: 'Rottweiler',
235: 'German shepherd, German shepherd dog, German police dog, alsatian', 236: 'Doberman, Doberman pinscher',
237: 'miniature pinscher', 238: 'Greater Swiss Mountain dog', 239: 'Bernese mountain dog',
240: 'Appenzeller', 241: 'EntleBucher', 242: 'boxer', 243: 'bull mastiff',
244: 'Tibetan mastiff', 245: 'French bulldog', 246: 'Great Dane', 247: 'Saint Bernard, St Bernard',
248: 'Eskimo dog, husky', 249: 'malamute, malemute, Alaskan malamute', 250: 'Siberian husky',
251: 'dalmatian, coach dog, carriage dog', 252: 'affenpinscher, monkey pinscher, monkey dog', 253: 'basenji',
254: 'pug, pug-dog', 255: 'Leonberg', 256: 'Newfoundland, Newfoundland dog', 257: 'Great Pyrenees',
258: 'Samoyed, Samoyede', 259: 'Pomeranian', 260: 'chow, chow chow', 261: 'keeshond',
262: 'Brabancon griffon', 263: 'Pembroke, Pembroke Welsh corgi', 264: 'Cardigan, Cardigan Welsh corgi',
265: 'toy poodle', 266: 'miniature poodle', 267: 'standard poodle', 268: 'Mexican hairless',
### returns "True" if a dog is detected in the image stored at img_path
def dog_detector(img_path):
prediction = ResNet50_predict_labels(img_path)
return ((prediction <= 268) & (prediction >= 151))
predict_ = ResNet50_predict_labels(human_files_short[99])
detect_and_box_faces(human_files_short[99], detect=True)
#906 is 906: 'Windsor tie'
predict_
Question 3: Use the code cell below to test the performance of your dog_detector function.
human_files_short have a detected dog? dog_files_short have a detected dog?Answer:
### TODO: Test the performance of the dog_detector function
### on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
def dog_detector_performance(image_set):
'''
give the performance of dog_detector for an image set
take an image set as an input
give a percent as an output
'''
# count face numbers
image_count=0
for im_se in image_set:
if dog_detector(im_se) == True:
image_count+=1
# calcul performance
performance = (float(image_count)/float(len(image_set)))*100
# express performance
print('Percent of dogs detected is: {}%'.format(performance))
# dog detector performance on human_files_short
dog_detector_performance(human_files_short)
# dog detector performance on dog_files_short
dog_detector_performance(dog_files_short)
Now that we have functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, we need a way to predict breed from images. In this step, you will create a CNN that classifies dog breeds. You must create your CNN from scratch (so, you can't use transfer learning yet!), and you must attain a test accuracy of at least 1%. In Step 5 of this notebook, you will have the opportunity to use transfer learning to create a CNN that attains greatly improved accuracy.
Be careful with adding too many trainable layers! More parameters means longer training, which means you are more likely to need a GPU to accelerate the training process. Thankfully, Keras provides a handy estimate of the time that each epoch is likely to take; you can extrapolate this estimate to figure out how long it will take for your algorithm to train.
We mention that the task of assigning breed to dogs from images is considered exceptionally challenging. To see why, consider that even a human would have great difficulty in distinguishing between a Brittany and a Welsh Springer Spaniel.
| Brittany | Welsh Springer Spaniel |
|---|---|
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It is not difficult to find other dog breed pairs with minimal inter-class variation (for instance, Curly-Coated Retrievers and American Water Spaniels).
| Curly-Coated Retriever | American Water Spaniel |
|---|---|
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Likewise, recall that labradors come in yellow, chocolate, and black. Your vision-based algorithm will have to conquer this high intra-class variation to determine how to classify all of these different shades as the same breed.
| Yellow Labrador | Chocolate Labrador | Black Labrador |
|---|---|---|
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We also mention that random chance presents an exceptionally low bar: setting aside the fact that the classes are slightly imabalanced, a random guess will provide a correct answer roughly 1 in 133 times, which corresponds to an accuracy of less than 1%.
Remember that the practice is far ahead of the theory in deep learning. Experiment with many different architectures, and trust your intuition. And, of course, have fun!
We rescale the images by dividing every pixel in every image by 255.
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
# pre-process the data for Keras
train_tensors = paths_to_tensor(train_files).astype('float32')/255
valid_tensors = paths_to_tensor(valid_files).astype('float32')/255
test_tensors = paths_to_tensor(test_files).astype('float32')/255
Create a CNN to classify dog breed. At the end of your code cell block, summarize the layers of your model by executing the line:
model.summary()
We have imported some Python modules to get you started, but feel free to import as many modules as you need. If you end up getting stuck, here's a hint that specifies a model that trains relatively fast on CPU and attains >1% test accuracy in 5 epochs:

Question 4: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. If you chose to use the hinted architecture above, describe why you think that CNN architecture should work well for the image classification task.
Answer: I decided to take inspiration of a classic CNN model from the keras team, https://github.com/keras-team/keras/tree/master/examples.
I added a batch normalisation to use much higher learning rates and be less careful about initialization (Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03167).
I also set up a dropout to prevent overfitting.
# inspiration
#https://keras.io/getting-started/sequential-model-guide/
#https://keras.io/models/sequential/
#https://github.com/keras-team/keras/tree/master/examples
# GƩron, AurƩlien. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools,
# and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems (Emplacement du Kindle 8614). O'Reilly Media. Ćdition du Kindle.
# the Sequential model is a linear stack of layers.
model = Sequential()
model.add(BatchNormalization(input_shape=(224, 224, 3)))
model.add(Conv2D(16, (3, 3), padding='same'))
model.add(Activation('relu'))
model.add(Conv2D(32, (3, 3)))
model.add(Activation('relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2)))
model.add(Dropout(0.25))
model.add(Conv2D(64, (3, 3), padding='same'))
model.add(Activation('relu'))
model.add(Conv2D(128, (3, 3)))
model.add(Activation('relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2)))
model.add(Dropout(0.25))
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dense(133))
model.add(Activation('relu'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Dense(133))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))
model.summary()
model.compile(optimizer='rmsprop', loss='categorical_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])
Train your model in the code cell below. Use model checkpointing to save the model that attains the best validation loss.
You are welcome to augment the training data, but this is not a requirement.
### TODO: specify the number of epochs that you would like to use to train the model.
epochs = 50
### Do NOT modify the code below this line.
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.from_scratch.hdf5',
verbose=1, save_best_only=True)
model.fit(train_tensors, train_targets,
validation_data=(valid_tensors, valid_targets),
epochs=epochs, batch_size=20, callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose=1)
model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.from_scratch.hdf5')
Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 1%.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
dog_breed_predictions = [np.argmax(model.predict(np.expand_dims(tensor, axis=0))) for tensor in test_tensors]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(dog_breed_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(dog_breed_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/DogVGG16Data.npz')
train_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['test']
The model uses the the pre-trained VGG-16 model as a fixed feature extractor, where the last convolutional output of VGG-16 is fed as input to our model. We only add a global average pooling layer and a fully connected layer, where the latter contains one node for each dog category and is equipped with a softmax.
VGG16_model = Sequential()
VGG16_model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D(input_shape=train_VGG16.shape[1:]))
VGG16_model.add(Dense(133, activation='softmax'))
VGG16_model.summary()
VGG16_model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='rmsprop', metrics=['accuracy'])
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.VGG16.hdf5',
verbose=1, save_best_only=True)
VGG16_model.fit(train_VGG16, train_targets,
validation_data=(valid_VGG16, valid_targets),
epochs=20, batch_size=20, callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose=1)
VGG16_model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.VGG16.hdf5')
Now, we can use the CNN to test how well it identifies breed within our test dataset of dog images. We print the test accuracy below.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
VGG16_predictions = [np.argmax(VGG16_model.predict(np.expand_dims(feature, axis=0))) for feature in test_VGG16]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(VGG16_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(VGG16_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
def VGG16_predict_breed(img_path):
# extract bottleneck features
bottleneck_feature = extract_VGG16(path_to_tensor(img_path))
# obtain predicted vector
predicted_vector = VGG16_model.predict(bottleneck_feature)
# return dog breed that is predicted by the model
return short_dog_names[np.argmax(predicted_vector)]
print('VGG16_predict_breed predict image \n\r American_water_spaniel_00648 as {} \n\r and Labrador_retriever_06457 as {}'\
.format(VGG16_predict_breed('images/American_water_spaniel_00648.jpg'), \
VGG16_predict_breed('images/Labrador_retriever_06457.jpg')))
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/068.Flat-coated_retriever/Flat-coated_retriever_04687.jpg')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/009.American_water_spaniel/American_water_spaniel_00622.jpg', False)
Test accuracy is only 42% so, prediction is 1 over 2 right
American water spaniel is hard to predict.
Flat coated retriever and amercian water spaniel are closed and not easy to identify properly.
You will now use transfer learning to create a CNN that can identify dog breed from images. Your CNN must attain at least 60% accuracy on the test set.
In Step 4, we used transfer learning to create a CNN using VGG-16 bottleneck features. In this section, you must use the bottleneck features from a different pre-trained model. To make things easier for you, we have pre-computed the features for all of the networks that are currently available in Keras:
The files are encoded as such:
Dog{network}Data.npz
where {network}, in the above filename, can be one of VGG19, Resnet50, InceptionV3, or Xception. Pick one of the above architectures, download the corresponding bottleneck features, and store the downloaded file in the bottleneck_features/ folder in the repository.
In the code block below, extract the bottleneck features corresponding to the train, test, and validation sets by running the following:
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/Dog{network}Data.npz')
train_{network} = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_{network} = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_{network} = bottleneck_features['test']
### TODO: Obtain bottleneck features from another pre-trained CNN.
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/DogResnet50Data.npz')
train_ResNet50 = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_ResNet50 = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_ResNet50 = bottleneck_features['test']
Create a CNN to classify dog breed. At the end of your code cell block, summarize the layers of your model by executing the line:
<your model's name>.summary()
Question 5: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. Describe why you think the architecture is suitable for the current problem.
Answer:
I use a pre-trained network ResNet50.
I add at our sequential model:
GlobalAveragePooling gives the Global average pooling operation for spatial dataDense to link the features to the 133 dog breed classessoftmax activate for mulit class classification### TODO: Define your architecture.
Resnet50_model = Sequential()
Resnet50_model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D(input_shape=train_ResNet50.shape[1:]))
Resnet50_model.add(Dense(133))
Resnet50_model.add(Activation('softmax'))
Resnet50_model.summary()
### Compile the model.
Resnet50_model.compile(optimizer='adam', loss='categorical_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])
Train your model in the code cell below. Use model checkpointing to save the model that attains the best validation loss.
You are welcome to augment the training data, but this is not a requirement.
### TODO: Train the model.
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.ResNet50.hdf5',
verbose=1, save_best_only=True)
Resnet50_model.fit(train_ResNet50, train_targets,
validation_data=(valid_ResNet50, valid_targets),
epochs=50, batch_size=60, callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose=1)
### TODO: Load the model weights with the best validation loss.
Resnet50_model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.ResNet50.hdf5')
Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 60%.
### TODO: Calculate classification accuracy on the test dataset.
Resnet50_predictions = [np.argmax(Resnet50_model.predict(np.expand_dims(feature, axis=0))) for feature in test_ResNet50]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(Resnet50_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(Resnet50_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
print(classification_report([np.argmax(x) for x in test_targets], Resnet50_predictions, target_names = short_dog_names))
Write a function that takes an image path as input and returns the dog breed (Affenpinscher, Afghan_hound, etc) that is predicted by your model.
Similar to the analogous function in Step 5, your function should have three steps:
dog_names array defined in Step 0 of this notebook to return the corresponding breed.The functions to extract the bottleneck features can be found in extract_bottleneck_features.py, and they have been imported in an earlier code cell. To obtain the bottleneck features corresponding to your chosen CNN architecture, you need to use the function
extract_{network}
where {network}, in the above filename, should be one of VGG19, Resnet50, InceptionV3, or Xception.
### TODO: Write a function that takes a path to an image as input
### and returns the dog breed that is predicted by the model.
from extract_bottleneck_features import *
def predict_breed(img_path):
# extract bottleneck features
bottleneck_feature = extract_Resnet50(path_to_tensor(img_path))
# obtain predicted vector
predicted_vector = Resnet50_model.predict(bottleneck_feature)
# return dog breed that is predicted by the model
return short_dog_names[np.argmax(predicted_vector)]
predict_breed('images/American_water_spaniel_00648.jpg')
print('predict_breed with Resnet50 predict image \n\r American_water_spaniel_00648 as {} \n\r and Labrador_retriever_06457 as {}'\
.format(predict_breed('images/American_water_spaniel_00648.jpg'), \
predict_breed('images/Labrador_retriever_06457.jpg')))
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/035.Boykin_spaniel/Boykin_spaniel_02446.jpg', False)
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/009.American_water_spaniel/American_water_spaniel_00629.jpg', False)
The Test accuracy is 83%, it's great. Not good enough to predict correctly American Water Spaniel
Write an algorithm that accepts a file path to an image and first determines whether the image contains a human, dog, or neither. Then,
You are welcome to write your own functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, but feel free to use the face_detector and dog_detector functions developed above. You are required to use your CNN from Step 5 to predict dog breed.
A sample image and output for our algorithm is provided below, but feel free to design your own user experience!

This photo looks like an Afghan Hound.
### TODO: Write your algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
def breed_detector(img_path):
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
imgplot = plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
if dog_detector(img_path):
print('Hello dog! You look like a ....')
return predict_breed(img_path)
elif face_detector(img_path):
print('Hello human! You look like a ....')
return predict_breed(img_path)
else:
print('error: we do not detect in the image a dog nor a man')
return 'error: we do not detect in the image a dog nor a man'
In this section, you will take your new algorithm for a spin! What kind of dog does the algorithm think that you look like? If you have a dog, does it predict your dog's breed accurately? If you have a cat, does it mistakenly think that your cat is a dog?
Test your algorithm at least six images on your computer. Feel free to use any images you like. Use at least two human and two dog images.
Question 6: Is the output better than you expected :) ? Or worse :( ? Provide at least three possible points of improvement for your algorithm.
Answer:
## TODO: Execute your algorithm from Step 6 on
## at least 6 images on your computer.
## Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
breed_detector('images/American_water_spaniel_00648.jpg')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/035.Boykin_spaniel/Boykin_spaniel_02440.jpg', False)
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/009.American_water_spaniel/American_water_spaniel_00623.jpg', False)
breed_detector('images/Brittany_02625.jpg')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/037.Brittany/Brittany_02595.jpg', False)
breed_detector('images/Curly-coated_retriever_03896.jpg')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/055.Curly-coated_retriever/Curly-coated_retriever_03861.jpg', False)
breed_detector('images/Labrador_retriever_06449.jpg')
breed_detector('images/Labrador_retriever_06455.jpg')
breed_detector('images/Labrador_retriever_06457.jpg')
breed_detector('images/Welsh_springer_spaniel_08203.jpg')
breed_detector('../../../data/dog_images/train/095.Kuvasz/Kuvasz_06442.jpg')
breed_detector('images/sample_human_2.png')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/056.Dachshund/Dachshund_03922.jpg', False)
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/056.Dachshund/Dachshund_03923.jpg', False)
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/002.Afghan_hound/Afghan_hound_00081.jpg')
breed_detector('images/1_FQz-iuc3Y2f6Cnvnx0chlw.jpeg')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/071.German_shepherd_dog/German_shepherd_dog_04887.jpg', False)
detect_and_box_faces('images/1_FQz-iuc3Y2f6Cnvnx0chlw.jpeg')
breed_detector('images/sample_dog_output.png')
breed_detector('images/sample_human_output.png')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/110.Norwegian_lundehund/Norwegian_lundehund_07187.jpg', False)
breed_detector('images/1V6A2836.jpeg')
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/069.French_bulldog/French_bulldog_04765.jpg')
detect_and_box_faces('images/1V6A2836.jpeg', box_thick=40)
breed_detector(human_files[131])
breed_detector(human_files_short[99])
detect_and_box_faces('../../../data/dog_images/train/127.Silky_terrier/Silky_terrier_08042.jpg', False)
breed_detector('images/hzmacron0201.jpg')
breed_detector('images/Scarlett-Johansson.jpg')
breed_detector('images/Scarlett_Johansson_by_Gage_Skidmore_2_(cropped).jpg')
breed_detector('images/albert-einstein.jpg')
breed_detector('images/albert_einstein.jpg')
| Image | Expected | Predict | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| American_water_spaniel_00648 | dog - American Water Spaniel | dog - 035.Boykin_spaniel | Wrong prediction but close |
| Brittany_02625 | dog - Brittany | dog - 037.Brittany | Right |
| Curly-coated_retriever_03896 | dog - Curly coated Retriever | dog - 055.Curly_Coated_Re | Right |
| Labrador_retriever_06449 | dog - Labrador Retriever | dog - 096.Labrador_Retr | Right |
| Labrador_retriever_06455 | dog - Labrador Retriever | dog - 096.Labrador_Retr | Right |
| Labrador_retriever_06457 | dog - Labrador Retriever | dog - 096.Labrador_Retr | Right |
| Welsh_springer_spaniel_08203 | dog - Welsh Springer Spaniel | dog - 130.Welsh_spring_Sp | Right, again |
| Kuvasz_06442 | dog - Kuvasz | dog - 095.Kuvasz | Right |
| sample_human_2 | human - 002.Afghan Hound | human - 056.Dachshund | Human but would prefer Afghan |
| Hound, Dashund not so close | |||
| sample_human_output | human - ?? | human - 110.Norwegian_lu | Wrong, seems not so close |
| 1_FQz-iuc3Y2f6Cnvnx0chlw | human - ?? | human - 071.German_shephe | |
| 1V6A2836 | human - ?? | human - 069.French_bulldog | myself, human detection ok |
| human_files[131] | human - ?? | human - 069.French_bulldog | Raul, human detection ok |
| human_files_short[99] | human - ?? | human - 127.Silky_terrier | GW Bush, human detection ok |
| hzmacron0201 | human - ?? | human - 127.Silky_terrier | E Macron |
| Scarlett-Johansson | human - ?? | human - 002.Afghan_hound | Scarlett Johansson |
| Scarlett_Johansson_by_Gage | human - ?? | human - 016.Beagle | Scarlett Johansson |
| albert-einstein | human - ?? | human - 056.Dachshund | Albert Einstein |
| albert_einstein | human - ?? | human - 124.Poodle | Albert Einstein |
This was interesting to see the results at the end of the experiement. A brief description of my views are below...
With Resnet50_predictions, the test accruracy is 83%. This looks great, but may be not good enough to predict difficult breed like American Water Spaniel.
The detection Human vs dog works perfectly.
About association of human faces with dog breed, I'm not certain that's correct.
For me, to be compared to French Bulldog look offensive. Right I'm french, but bulldog !
Nevertheless, I'm glad to be classified as Raùl like a french bulldog.
About GW Bush, classified as human, ok, but Silky Terrier, not sure it's right. What is awesome, it's the fact that E Macron, French president is also predicted as Silky Terrier. May be Nation President are all predicted as Silky Terrier !
For the image 1_FQz-iuc3Y2f6Cnvnx0chlw with 9 faces detected, it's not appropriate, because we don't know witch faces is predicted as 071.German Sheperd; may be Bradley Cooper ! The image to predict breed shall contains only one faces. May be should be good to modify breed_detector function in order to detect that if more than 1 face is detected, prediction should be wrong.
By using two different pictures of Scarlett Johansson, with two different hair dresses, the prediction is different. But, at least, I can understand why.
The same think happens for the different representation of Albert Einstein, predicted as Dashund and Poodle, depending of the hair dresses and the context of the pictures.
To improve the algorithm I could:
from subprocess import call
call(['python', '-m', 'nbconvert', 'dog_app.ipynb'])